The medical journal The Lancet recently published a detailed consensus statement classifying obesity as a disease. The ...

After 20 years of hemming, hawing, and “evaluating the science,” the FDA is finally muscling its way onto the most coveted ...

Lithium batteries are in the news constantly. But lithium has plenty of other uses. It's a drug for bipolar disorder. It used ...

John Batchelor and I dive into the accelerating outbreak of avian flu across the U.S. and the hazard of raw milk.

Chocolate is proof that life’s sweetest indulgences come with strings attached. Just when you thought you could justify a ...

The surge in the “medical freedom” movement has thrust the tension between individual liberty and public health into the ...

Gatorade is selling "electrolyte-infused" alkaline water. Save your money ... and your groin. It's a stupid ripoff with ...

Who could imagine a world without plasma TV screens? Or a blood test without measurements of key electrolytes, sodium, and ...

The First Amendment's guarantees are not absolute. A person cannot “shout 'fire!' in a crowded theater” and put the lives of ...

Sugar-sweetened beverages, the liquid delight promising a moment of joy and delivering a lifetime (?) of regret. Positioned ...

The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is ...

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the ...